MARRAKECH, Morocco — A well-known Moroccan activist who led protests decrying the government’s earthquake response on Monday was sentenced to prison in a case that human rights advocates condemned as arbitrary and politically motivated. Said Ait Mahdi, the 32-year-old president of one of the earthquake-stricken region’s leading activist groups, was sentenced to three months behind bars and ordered to pay …
KAHRAMANMARAS : After an earthquake killed thousands near Istanbul in 1999, a young Islamist who had served as the city’s mayor boosted his political career by taking tea with survivors in their tents and asking, where is the state? “I said to him, ‘This is an industrial city—why are we unprepared?’ " said Mr. Yilmaz, a retired baby crib manufacturer …
Turkey's deadly earthquake that has left more than 17,000 people dead could have caused the country to move five to six meters compared to Syria, according to Italian seismologist Professor Carlo Doglioni. The earthquake, which was centred in Turkey's southeastern province of Kahramanmaras, was a result of the grinding of the tectonic plates that the country sits on. An enlarged …
